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Here’s an interesting adaptation from  “Pornography, Public Acceptance and Sex Related Crime: A Review,”Int J Law Psychiatry, 32:304–14, 2009.

I won’t try some vain attempt to summarise the findings because both the paper and the adaptation are fairly easy reading, so here’s an extract [emboldening is my own].

In terms of the use of pornography by sex offenders, the police sometimes suggest that a high percentage of sex offenders are found to have used pornography. This is meaningless, since most men have at some time used pornography. Looking closer, Michael Goldstein and Harold Kant found that rapists were more likely than nonrapists in the prison population to have been punished for looking at pornography while a youngster, while other research has shown that incarcerated nonrapists had seen more pornography, and seen it at an earlier age, than rapists. What does correlate highly with sex offense is a strict, repressive religious upbringing. Richard Green too has reported that both rapists and child molesters use less pornography than a control group of “normal” males.

The article even goes as far as suggesting that “in those countries that allowed for the possession of child pornography, child sex abuse has declined”.

Well that scuppers New Labour’s approach to dealing with things a little, doesn’t it.

From today’s news headlines:

OMG KIDS TAKING MORE DRUGS. EVERYBODY IS ALARMED!!!

Let’s take a look at that a bit more closely, shall we? Here’s the text from the actual report:

Police recorded drug offences increased by six per cent compared with 2007/08, following an increase of 18 per cent between 2006/07 and 2007/08. Increases in recent years have been largely attributable to increases in the recording of possession of cannabis offences… In 2008/09 possession of cannabis increased by six per cent compared with 2007/08. This increase continues an upward trend in recent years, with possession of cannabis offences recorded by the police rising by 90 per cent since 2004/05. This rise has been largely associated with the increased use of powers to issue cannabis warnings.

and

The [British Crime Survey] is also used to monitor trends in drug use and the figures are published annually. The BCS shows that overall illicit drug use among 16 to 59 year olds decreased from 11.1 per cent in 1996 to 9.3 per cent in 2007/08 and it is now at its lowest level since the BCS started measurement. This decrease is mainly due to successive declines in use of cannabis since 2003/04… This suggests the increase seen in recent years in police recorded drug offences is likely to be due to increase in police activity rather than in drug use.

Just thought I should highlight that. Once again: usage hasn’t risen: police have just been reporting it more.

Odious toad, Nick Griffin, says:

We had to do it [change the constitution] for legal reasons. Many of our members think it’s a good thing.

A lot of people said we should have done it some time ago but that’s really by the by.

Our problem with this is a government funded, taxpayer-funded quango telling people who they can and can’t associate with, [which] is a fundamental outrage.

Nevertheless, we recognise legal reality, so we have done it and now, for one thing, they can’t call us racist any more.

Spot on there, Nick, because changing your constitution to allow non whites in to your little gang because you have to is the very definition of not being racist.

The Supreme Leader plans to stop direct flights from Yemen to the UK. That’ll stop ‘em.

Trouble is, banning direct flights only really works if there are only two countries in existence.

This story is a pretty funny example of how retarded a few coppers can be if they have nothing better to do.